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THE SHOOTING AFFRAY him as a "Gormin epy," and there was evidence that they had been told that the appellant was a German, whereas, as a mat- Appeal Against the Sentence enter of frot, he was a Swede. He
Almberg,
told them to get out of his room whereupon one of the avilors took up a chair, whereupon Almberg,
The ente in which Ernest intonding to scare the man, fired. Magans Almborg was charged did rot intend to hit tle man The Great Balile still draga on, and recently convicted of nalan and when he was hit the sailor and though there is little fresh to fally pounding William Carles did not all out or fall, report, it is clear that, by resum Barryatsumed a new omplexion Almberg then escaped into the ing the offensive, the Allies are the morning, in the Fall Court, atreet Elis face was bleeding blows. To this fact can be found for a robearing of the ass by his body bruised, his koses profiting in the exchange of when Mr. F. C. Jankin applied and bruised, be hal a tooth loosened, his lips were swollen, osase for satisfaction, slow though their r Jahips.
the progress is. Meantime, we Mr Jenkin was insir voted by injors his wrists swollen can do worse than to weigh up Mr. Lowie, of Afessio. Johnson, and he generally showed the situation generally. To date, Stokes and Master, and the Crown signs of considerable violence the Geruana have been able to was represented by the flen Mir, having been used upon him. Hə keep the war for the most part J. B. Kemp, Attorney General, a taken to the Police Station off their own territory, and the instructed by the Crown Soliciter, and charged with committing the canse for that is to be found in their Mr. P. M. Hodgson.
offenes, and was found guilty by rapid mobilisation. There is now Mr. Jenkin said that this was
Mr. Melbourne and sentenced, ample evidence to show that the motion under section 104 cf. Coneel desired to adduce fresh on enemy had been preparing for the the Magistrates Ordinance favidence, for the reason which war some considerable time before the rehearing by their Lertships was set in the motion, that the the outbreak of hostilities, and all of the determination by Mr. Mel-determination of the magistrate The 8.8. Haichow, which that has been accomplished since tourne in a complaint by William was wrong on the point that he for making, forthwith, definite arrived from Tientein to-day, has been inspired by a rogard for Charles Barry against the appel did not find that the defendant provision for sick and wounded reporta having eno:untered
colerity. The German doctrine of lant, by which determination defence. It was erroneous, be
was in peril. and acting in self- soldiers as well as for those de furious hurricane in the Peohile war followed the belief that Almberg was found guilty of an- pendent on meu killed or injured Gulf.
modern states could not indefinite lawful wounding under section 19 cause there was no finding to that dering the war. Parliamentarians, The Straying Goat. The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will press and public hete for the 28th Panjabis was charged modera wars. That is why their sonment with hard labour. An favour. That point was apper ndy The 0180 in which a sepoy of sure, economic and otherwise, of sentenced to three months' impri- have been in the appellant's ly maintain the tremendous pret of Ordinance No. 2 of 1865, and effect, and if there had beer, he, counsel, submitted that it should agreed that now is the time for with allowing his goat to stray initial sim was to strike swiftly, application under Bettling the manner in which the and do damage to the Govera-land with all their might, at the strates' Ordinance for leave to in the minds of both sides when country sball show its appreciation
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ment plantation on the Wanchai- very outset of the campaign. appeal was made, and Mr. the case was tried haf the
Melbourne, Aberdeen Gap was concluded
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Trouble Ahead.
WGE. to graat How far they have failed is tion, unless he was satisfied referred to it
the applica prosecution and the defence The Government has given its was fined five dollars by Mr. C.
shown by the fact that after three that it was frivolous, granted
The evidence he desired, to definite promise that dne pro-
the garba pension at This morning, before Mr. Mel- the resultant loss of thousands of that he did not think it was a of the portrait of a man, in Bicycle as Security. and a half months' fighting, with the application, and is followed call was as follows:- Ho other relief shall be made without
wanted to prove the existence- further delay; and therein it has with receiving a bieyale knowing succeeded in nothing but the their Lordships to say whether uniform and the reference to it bourne, a Chinese was charged their finest troops, they have frivolous one. He had to ask shown wisdom. When a danger the same to have been stolen. The occupation of Belgium. Need- they wished to hear the evidence n language, extremely strong, as 18 over, most of us are apt either to defendant explained that a friend Ises to repeat, it was not with de novo, or whether they would being a portrait of the German or else to minimise both is and the off him and he had taken the legions set out, and it is certain any order which they should wish the evidence already, given with forget how that danger wasnvented of his had horrowed ten dollars that object that the Kaiser's have fresh evidence, or to make Kaiser. He wished to elaborate. sacrifices of those who deliver bicycle as security. The defend-that if they sustain anything like to make as from it. Now-while the iron
egard to the conversation about a aminahing raverse either in the ent was discharged.
the Emden and the discussion The facti quite abortly were willy-nilly, to acknowledge its
Vice-Admiral Limpus. east or the west they will be in a these:On the fifth of October which took place with r ference indebtedness to the men who are Limpus, C.B., has been advanced enthusiasm in this war is poly kong llotel two eailors in the Navy his various exploits on the trade Vicc-Admiral Arthur Heary very bad way, the national the appellant met at the Hong-te conduct of the Optain of prepared to give up everything to that rank as from Sept. 14. being kept up by the Kaiser's and he entered into convertation
Emden ia connection with for its sake-is the time to make We may recall that in March, assurances of ultimate victory. with them. They had drinkartea. He desir.d also to call provision; and let us trust that it 1898, he was appointed to the Every day now is postponing the together and formed an acquaint-evidence of the assault upon the The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve will be on a generous scale.
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
new oruiser Terrible, Capt. C. G. fulfilment Learning a Lesson.
There is no disloyalty, and
the Kaiser's ance, whiob one did sometimes appellant and the condition in Io was her com-rognostications, and Robinson.
when over the drinks, and they ad- which he was shortly afterwards ******TTMADRKET?AN* exaggeration, in eaying and experimental craiees, and Emperor has made the mist ske of 10 the appellant's room at the ence to the effect that throughout
mander during her various trials the people realise that their journed from the Hongkong Hotel and he desired also to call evid that, in the past, England has was reappointed in 1899, when counting his chickens before they King. Elward Hotel, where the the whole of the assault the sailore allowed herself to forget that the deeds of her sona on the Capt. Percy Scott commissioned are hatched, the real trouble for sailors had more liquor and the were constantly saying to the ap
her to relieve the Powerful on Germany will begin, battlefield deserved practical the China Station. She was de-
appellant a little more. They ex
pellant, "I can see what you are acknowledgment. If it were not rained at Darban during the early
tered into a discussion about the you are a German spy. You" "Must b so, how came it that the Crimean
war. There were decorating the ought to be shots you ought to stages of the South African war veterans sometimes died in the and Commander Limpus was victory immediately awaits the fripha, one of which the
be hung," and generally threaten- may be that no decisive appellant's room various photo-dhin, And how came landed for service with the Naval Allies. A condition of stale-mate portrait of the appellant's father. He also desired to call evidence"
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1914..
OPENINGS IN RUSSIA.
no
workhouse?
known "Shillin' a day ":-
"Think what 'e's been, think
what 'o's seen.
some
of
t be Crushed.
one of
Kipling, even less than thirty Brigade in Natal. He was pro-
that shortly after the assault upon years uro, to write in his well moted captain, with seniority of may obtain for months, and, put a major in the Swedish Army.
This roused the ire of one down the stairs, these two sailore Almborg, after he had rusherl ed in the Terrible until two or both in the exet, and the west for to it in arang, uncomplimentary to adjoining rooms, May 2, 1000. He was not ralley-ting it at the worst, the Germana
aa7 succeed in holding the Allies of the sailors, who referred went fast along the passage three months after this date, and
But even if they torms, which caused, apparently, which was occupied by coun time yet. in the meantime had taken port do, what will this mean? Is will a little friction. They discussed sel, only he was out at the Boxers in North Quinn, June, Germany will be held, as it the exploits of the Einden. The in the operations. against the mean that, besieged on both sides, the war in general and spoke of time, and the other was occupied 1000, for which he also possesses were, in the jaws of an iron appellant expressed the view, by Mr. Potter, who was in con- a medal.-L. and 0. Express. vice. And the serious rart which was held by many others, Benvie. The men cime in, one sultation at the time with Mr. of the business for the Germans that the commander of the Emden brandishing the revolver. They is that the strength of that vice had aoted as a gentleman and attacked Me. Potter's office boy PEACE PROPOSITIONS. increased every week, while their British asiler would have done, and asked Mr. Potter and Mr. own power of resistance is more This roused the wrath of one the Biavls if they were German spies. than correspondingly weakening.
Bailors who said something to the Thoy were constantly referring If, therefore, it comes to a war of appellant and hit him in the face to them 88 exhaustion and all the evidence and knocked him to the floor fiet one of them struck Mr. Germad spies, and in points that way-Germany must Having got him there, one of the Beavis upon the jaw. They eventually be crashed to death in men took him by the wrist and seemed to be obsessed with the that iron grip. That is why we twisted him to his kaeos. Notides that their one aim in life can patiently await the result of satisfied with that, they palled that afternoon was to hunt for the operations.
him to his feet and tore his sing-German spies, let. He was then taken by the
There was still one other point
Germans reported to have approached the French.
Paris enga
Think of 'is pansion, an'- Card save the Queen "? But England has had her Before it is finally concluded, there will be many things for lesson, and we a'solutely refuse which we shall have to thank the Great War. Not the loast of to believe that she will allow there will be the impetus which the present crisis bas given our herself to off nd in like miner commercial men to seize the opportunity of wresting trade from the 24ic. The very absence of enemy, and which must eventually lead to fresh markets for British crim, o gaiety, cf sport, of manufactures, It is generally admitted that in the past we have undue excitem .nt, or. of nolly too often allowed German merchants to be firet in the field, and triumph at the news of Garmin when their footing has once been obtained they have displayed an roverees, at Home, is sufficient to energy and enterprise which required no amiall measure of organised show how seriously the Old competition to take effect. It may have been that their commercial Country is taking herself. What successos have been achieved by methods which our traders would more than seventy-five per cent. not desire to imitate, but that is not the point. The cardinal fact of her people have regarded as is that trade has been won, and the equally obvious and important beyond the pale of possibility has circumstance now is that, while Germany is perfores out of the field, become, not only possible, but this is our chance to come in, Thus can leeway be made up.
notual; a big European war has The Courrier d'Haiphong pro- There is scarcely a quarter of the globo in which openings for taken place and Briisin has been ducea a paragraph from the the British trader do not present themselves. But for the moment threatened with invasion! What Straits Times, published poder Honouring the Brave," eara and pushed against the book-of evidence which he would like we may turn to Russia, where we have not been making as good a
ever ber sins of the future may the heading of Cum grano salis, Nine fresh names have been add- case, the man who held him by to adduce, and that was that the showing as we might in our trade relations during the recant past. be ingratitude to her deliverers to the effect that a correspondented to the immortal roll of honour the ears butting him in the face. sailor Blandford was asked by a There can be no shadow of doubt that in the Empire of our Allies is hardly likely to be one of them of the Daily Chronicle in by the conferring of that number This caused the appellant to warder "Hallo Jack, what are there is and will be plenty of room for the expansion of British Five-clawed Heas.
that influential of Victoria C0386 00 brave stagger against a writing desk, you doing here?" The sailor commerce. In financial matters Russis, until the past decade or The common ben in everywhere French people: have been British soldiere. The Victoria which was his own property, and answered that he had had a scrap so, relied chiefly on Paris and Berlin for her outside loans, but in to be seen in China, but we won approached on behalf of the Ger- Cross, it is needless to remark, is did not belong to the Hotel. In in the King Edward Hotel with the past few years a liberal share has been given to the British der whether any of our readers maa Government with the object a thoroughly democratic decora- the drawera he kept his private a German spy The language investor, Russian Rotations having become quite common on the have ever seen one with five of their propositions with regard tion, open to every rank in the property. god in one of throughout was strong and show- London market. Indeed, according to the Economist, in the period claws on its wings. We never to peace being accepted by the Army and its chariotor in this then was a collection of old visited the feeling that the men had since 1908 over sixty million sterling has been subscribed publicly have, but it seems there are such French Government. There regard is again borne out in the ing ourds, correspondence and a towarde Almberg. He would like in London for Russian issues, to say nothing of the enormicas aum creatures in this part of the world, proposals include the retrocession fact that four out of the nine re-loaded revolver. He had had the to call se witnesses Mr. Potter, which has been privately invested. But though taking our trade with That, at any rate, is how the Chi- of Metz and, perhaps, also a part oipients are non.coms. There revolver for a good number of Mr. Beavis and Mr. Nilsson, the Russia's aaa whole it may be said to have grown rapidly in the past few nese describe certain poultry, of Alsace Questioned on the have been many brave deeds done years, buying it tan years ago Swedish Contul, and he would, of years, it is equally true to say that in the commercial race Germany though it seems that the claws subject of Russia and England, by the British soldier since the with twenty-five rounds of am- course, call Almberg to augment has proved a far too successful rival. In import during the are merely five unusually hard and above all Belgium, the war began, who bay perform in five chambera ever since he already put in by him.
munition. Ho had kept it loaded the statements which last year Germany was represected by more then half of the trial, feather-stems. And hereby bange negotiators made the most vague granted those who have perform and the point is not to be fost sight of that in many icatances Gera peculiar belief among the Chi responses, but they declared that ed some signal act of devotion had purchased it; he had kept it The Hoa. Attorney General said many bas had the lion's share of the trade in articles which we nese-it is that hens with these Germany would insist at least on and valour in the presence of the loaded course of conduct that what had happened in this could send Russia just as well. Now, during the war at any rate, "olawa" are not fit for consump a boundary on the Schellt. That enemy. It is an honour which falls which was followed by nearly ease was that the appellant chose these German goods will not enter Russia, and it is likely that for tion; that they are, in fact, would insist," is delici us, only to the lot of a few to scoure, everyone out here. The drawer to chape his course in a partiociar some time after they will enter in only very small quantities. That poisonous. This superstition has is where our chance lies before Germany can resume her commer the Prefect of Shanghai, who bas
Victoria Crosses are not thrown was open, because Blandford had way, and possibly very soundly, been engaging the attention of
about with such a liberal hand as been roaming round the room and and having shaped his course in cial activities our merchants and manufacturers must " get their foot
the Kaiser serres out the Iron taking certain property, a box of that way he failed, but now want in," to put it in workaday phraseology.
issued a proclamation denouncing
New Steamship Line. Yet another Japanese steam-
Crosa. To show how lightly tobacco, a gold watch etc, and he led to have the opportunity to try resources-there are her virgin forests, untilled soil and unexploited called five-clawed bons shown where Japan bas recently acquired ago it was announced that zo/have been taken from the drawer to open the door to that pro- Russia, it must not be forgotten, has till vast undeveloped analyses of a number of these a to the Islands in the South Pacific may be recalled that many weeks of a vialling card which must do for him. He ebmitted that the belief and pointing out that ship line is being started to trade won is the latter decoration, it was also found to be in possession what an alternative course would
ready developing. As the Home papers have been pointing out as that of the ordinary fowl. All Teland. A firm at Sasebo bhad been awarded German Almberg saw the revolver in the It was not a metals, while in Moscow alone a considerable cotton industry is al that their flesh is just as nutritions intereste by the captura of Jaluft / fewer than 36,000. Iron Crosses in which was the revolver.osdure was most dangerous, there will be opportunity, here for the brain, the enterprise and the the same, superstitions die hard, bartered the steamer Nippo Mur, toany be the number of Victoria across his mind that he could it was not a case of surprise; it cash of the British merchant and financier. When the war is over; and we imagine it will take a good 4.160 tons, and will take a gens rossan granted to our troops bent off the attack upon him by was not a case of an undefended soldiers that is: 4,000 times a drawer, and the thought flashed evidence that was not available our manufacturers and capitalists must be ready to seize their obancer. That can only be done by taking time by the forelock. any proclamations to remove eral cargo to the Pellew and When it is eccomplished our alliance will have an economic as well popular belief of this kind, stupid as a naval and military basis.
and absurd though it may be.
were
090 of
a
Marshall Islands, returning with Verily the German army must a cargo of phosphates,
be fall of heroes!
fishing it.
During the whole of the assault, they were continually referring to
prisoner or defendant, and he (Continued on page 5)